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Apify vs Scrapfly

Apify scores higher on the AgentReady, 74/100 against 59/100. They differ on 10 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Apify. Apify is the largest marketplace of trusted tools for AI.

Scrapfly. Scrapfly is a web scraping and browser automation platform that provides an API to scrape any public site, drive any browser, and power any agent.

Where Apify is ahead

Apify passes llms-full.txt / full agent docs, and Scrapfly does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

Where Scrapfly is ahead

Scrapfly passes public docs discoverable, and Apify does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: authentication documented, pricing understandable and limits / constraints documented. Apify misses those.

And on adopt, self-service signup and free trial or free allowance. Apify misses those.

Finally, on operate, canonical workflow succeeds, observable execution and agent compatibility verified. Apify misses those.

What neither does

Both fail search discoverable, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, official typescript sdk, official python sdk, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. Apify leads 100 to 80. Apify misses search discoverable, public docs discoverable; Scrapfly misses search discoverable, llms-full.txt / full agent docs.

Understand. Apify leads 67 to 54. Apify misses openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Scrapfly misses openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented.

Adopt. Apify leads 63 to 50. Apify misses self-service signup, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, official typescript sdk, official python sdk; Scrapfly misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, official typescript sdk, official python sdk.

Operate. Apify leads 67 to 53. Apify misses canonical workflow succeeds, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, observable execution, agent compatibility verified; Scrapfly misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable.

Pricing

Apify does not publish a machine-readable starting price. Scrapfly does not publish one and has a free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Scrapfly clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Apify and Scrapfly. Alternatives to each: Apify, Scrapfly.

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